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[Anne Marrou Speaking to Visitors at a Chuckwagon]

Photograph of Anne Marrou at a chuck wagon speaking to festival visitors at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is wearing a purple pioneer dress with a matching bonnet, facing the visitors who are on the right. On display on the chuck wagon's fold down table are three different kinds of rope, an antique rolling pin and wooden bowl, an iron rod, and a few types of barbed wire. Other festival booths are visible in the background.

Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Three People Spinning Rope]

Photograph of Johnny Neal, Agnes Neal, and Rowdy Pate making rope at the Texas Folklife Festival. The rope is strung between two vices, one attached to a pole on the right and one that Johnny Neal is holding on the left. On the right, Rowdy Pate is trying to untie a knot in one of the ropes. Agnes is standing in the middle, assisting him.

Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Johnny Neal and Rowdy Pate Making Rope]

Photograph of Johnny Neal, and Rowdy Pate making rope at the Texas Folklife Festival. Pate is on the right, tying off the rope on a spinning contraption that Neal, standing to the left, is holding. Both men are wearing cowboy hats and button up shirts. Pate is also wearing a dark-colored vest and glasses.

Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Boy Riding on Plane Swing]

Photograph of a boy on a tree swing in Frontier Playland at the Texas Folklife Festival. The wooden swing has been made to look like an airplane. The boy is in full swing, holding on to the handles built into the plane. The tree trunk is visible on the right. Behind the boy swinging, another boy stands and watches.

Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Flemish Folk Dancers Peforming]

Photograph of Flemish folk dancers performing onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are divided into four groups of four, each group consisting of two girls and two boys. Each group is dancing around in a counterclockwise circle, their left hands joined in the middle. The girls are wearing long dresses, aprons and bonnets. The boys are wearing cropped pants that stop just under the knee, white knee-high socks, and white shirts.

Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Two members of Cajun Playboys]

Photograph of two members of the Cajun playboys performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. A violinist is on the right standing next to a microphone and wearing a flat cap, suspenders, and pin-stripe pants. He is smiling at the camera. Next to him on the left is a man wearing a washboard on his chest. Hanging on his ear is a spoon used to play the washboard.

Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Blacksmith Shaping Metal]

Photograph of blacksmith Al Morgan shaping a piece of metal at the Texas Folklife Festival. Using a hammer and chisel, he is working on a piece of metal atop an anvil. Several tools are visible on the work surface in front of him. A man is standing on the left, looking over his shoulder. The forge is visible a few feet behind Morgan.

Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Woman Spinning and Weaving]

Photograph of a woman weaving on a small table-top loom at the Texas Folklife Festival. Numerous threads are strung throughout the loom. The woman is standing on the right side of the loom, handling the threads. She is wearing an apron and a bandana wrapped around her forehead.

Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Patsy Anderson Making Bobbin Lace]

Photograph of Patsy Anderson making bobbin lace at the Texas Folklife Festival. She is sitting down with a cushion in her lap. The piece that she is working on is attached to the cushion. She is using several bobbins to make the design, about 25 or so, each loaded with string. They are roughly the size and shape of pencils. The string from each bobbin has already been worked into the lace, and she is crossing them over one another to carefully weave the intricate design. Another woman making bo… more

Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Houston Romanian Dancers Performing]

Photograph of the Houston Romanian Dancers performing onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival. A line of dancers are side-by-side, hands joined at shoulder level. Four women are on the left and four men are on the right, all dressed in traditional clothing. The women are wearing tea-length layered skirts, peasant blouses, and head scarves. The men are wearing long tunics tied at the waist with sashes, pants, boots, and Russian-style fur hats. Some audience members are visible in the left backgro… more

Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Ukranian Dancers Performing]

Photograph of the Ukrainian Dancers of Dallas performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Ten female dancers are lined up onstage side-by-side holding hands in a criss-cross fashion. They are all kicking their right leg out in front of them. Their costumes are traditional folkwear: peasant blouses, floral skirts, aprons, headbands made of flowers, and knee-high boots. Attached to the back of the headbands are long ribbons.

Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Male Dancer of the Ukrainian Dancers of Dallas Performing]

Photograph of one of the Ukrainian Dancers of Dallas performing onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is leaning back on his right hand, kicking his legs out in front of him toward the crowd which is on the right side of the photograph. He is wearing a light-colored shirt, loose, flowing pants, and boots. Behind him onstage, a line of female dancers is partially visible.

Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Maoileidigh School of Irish Dancing Performing with Live Music]

Photograph of dancers from the Maoileidigh School of Irish Dancing performing onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are paired off into two couples, each partner dancing across from one another with their hands at their side. They are all wearing modern-day clothing except one man who is wearing a kilt and knee-high socks. Behind them on a stage, a band is playing music while they dance.

Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Hawaiian Club Dancer Performing with Fire]

Photograph of a member of the Hawaiian Club Dancers of San Antonio performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. He is twirling a fire baton that is lit at both ends. He is shirtless, wearing only a short skirt, decorative fringe bands around his arms and one leg, a head band, and a tribal necklace. Some spectators are visible in the left background.

Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Hawaiian Club Dancers Performing]

Photograph of the Hawaiian Club Dancers of San Antonio performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Four female dancers are visible lined up front to back dancing with their arms out in front of them. They are wearing tribal costumes: triangle-patterned tops with thin straps, knee-length beaded skirts and patterned headbands. A crowd of spectators is visible in the background.

Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Man Standing in Polish Booth]

Photograph of the Polish booth and exhibit at the Texas Folklife Festival. A man, visible through an open doorway, is standing in a room that has been temporarily constructed as part of the Polish exhibit. He is wearing a light-colored shirt and pants, a long vest, and a brimmed hat. Visible inside the room is a wooden table and two chairs, a surface covered with a decorated tablecloth, a chandelier, and a window on the far wall. Outside the room, small leaves have been painted above and on the… more

Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Storytellers Bill and Judith Sallee]

Photograph of storytellers Judith and Bill Sallee at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are sitting in rocking chairs onstage. Bill is on the right, speaking into a microphone. Judith is on the left, watching him. A whip is wound up around the armrest of her rocking chair. Behind them is a painted backdrop of the front of a wooden house, so that they appear to be sitting on a porch.

Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Nancy Lou Webster Making Treenware]

Photograph of Nancy Lou Webster making treenware, or hand-carved wooden kitchenware, at the Texas Folklife Festival. Using a hammer and chisel, she is working on a piece of wood held study by a vice. Several tools are visible on the work surface in front of her. She is wearing a work glove on one hand.

Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Perfecto Cervantes Shearing a Sheep]

Photograph of Perfecto Cervantes shearing a sheep at the Texas Folklife Festival. The sheep is lying on the ground while Cervantes and another man hold it still. With his other hand he uses electric shearers to remove the sheep's wool. He is wearing striped overalls and a cowboy hat. Festival visitors are visible in the background, watching.

Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Country Cloggers and Buck Dancers Performing]

Photograph of the Country Cloggers and Buck Dancers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Girls in short skirts and suspenders are dancing and clapping. They are all wearing star-spangled neck ties. Two girls near the center are dancing around each other making a lassoing gesture while the others are lined up at the back of the dancefloor clapping.

Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Cadence Cloggers Dancing In-Line]

Photograph of the Cadence Cloggers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Men and women in costume are lined up on the dance floor all of them facing the front of the line. They have their knees bent and their hands on their waist. The women are wearing knee-length skirts with bibs and thick petticoats which give their skirts a lot of volume. The men are wearing dark pants and light shirts. All dancers are wearing bandanas around their necks. Spectators are visible in the background.

Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Cadence Cloggers Performing for Audience]

Photograph of the Cadence Cloggers performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Men and women in costume are spread out on the dance floor. In the foreground two men are facing the left stomping their feet and swinging their arms. Two women are in the middle ground doing the same while holding their skirts and large fluffy petticoats. A crowd of spectators is visible in the background.

Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Two Men Holding a Sausage]

Photograph of two men at the German Wurstfest booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. The men are facing each other talking and holding the same sausage. The man on the right is wearing a dark fedora and white apron. The man on the left is wearing a light-colored polo shirt and jeans. They are standing in front of a backdrop painted to look like a wall with a window.

Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Chilean Folklorico Group of Houston Performing]

Photograph of the Chilean Folklorico Group of Houston performing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Five male dancers are visible lined up side-by-side dancing with a rope or whip held up over their heads. They are wearing wide-brimmed hats, horizontal-striped panchos, dark pants, and over-the-knee boots with long fringes on the sides. Other dancers and musicians are visible onstage behind them.

Date: [1985-08-01..1985-08-04]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

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